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[McKern, Leo] OLIVIER, Laurence
TLS Laurence Olivier to Leo McKern
London: N.p., 1982
1p. TLS on headed notepaper.
1pp. TLS FROM LAURENCE OLIVIER TO LEO McKERN, WELCOMING HIM TO THE CAST OF KING LEAR.
In 1959, Laurence Olivier hired....[please click on the image or book title for more details]
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O'NEILL, Eugene
The Emperor Jones
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928
4to, pp. 90. Original patterned three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt on black spine. Labelled slipcase. Edges uncut.
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[SECOMBE, Harry] PEDRICK, Gale
The Laughtermakers: No. 8: Harry Secombe
London: N.p. [BBC], 1956
23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. HARRY SECOMBE'S COPY, ANNOTATED BY HIM, AND WITH SEVERAL DOODLES,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[McKERN, Leo] [HERRMANN, Edward] selected by WAVELL, A. P.
Other Men's Flowers
London: Cape, 1992
8vo, pp. 448. Original burgundy boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrappers lettered in red and black to front panel and spine.
Reprinted... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"If" -- the complete version will be sent! E.'.
This last refers to a referenced parody of Kipling's poem which begins: 'If you can keep your girl, when all around you, / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...'. In the film Hermann and McKern's characters discover that they have been in love with the same woman all their lives.
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LITTLEWOOD, Joan
1 p. ALS, IN ORIGINAL AIR MAIL ENVELOPE, TO DAVID GOTHARD, CO-FOUNDER OF THE RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON.
8 October 1983
1 pp. ALS, 200 x 150 mm, on stiff card, to the verso of which Hals' painting of Hamlet, cut from a magazine, has been affixed. Envelope dated 8 October 1983.
In both form and content, a wonderfully... [more]
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TAYLOR, Ted
The Trouble With Toby
N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC], N.d. [1957]
32 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left corner.
First edition. PRODUCTION COPY OF THE TRIAL RECORDING, WITH... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Eleven: Sale Of Manhattan (announced as The Lost Colony)
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
24 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series Six, Number Eleven, first broadcast on 29 November 1955.
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MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Thirteen: The Lost Year
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
25 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series Six, Number Thirteen, first broadcast on 13 December... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Fifteen: The Hastings Flyer
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
24 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series Six, Number Fifteen, first broadcast on 27 December... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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STOPPARD, Tom
Rosencrantz and Guldenstern Are Dead
London: Faber, 1967
8vo, pp. 96. Original card wrappers, printed dustwrapper.
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[ed. CARTER, Graydon]
Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire:
New York: Rodale, 2009
Large 8vo, pp. 215. Original blue boards, lettered in blind on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND TO THE FILM DIRECTOR... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Three: The Lost Emperor
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
22 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. Series six, Number Three, first broadcast on 4 october 1955.
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MILLIGAN, Spike
The Goon Show: Series Six Number Five: The Case Of The Missing C.D. Plates
London: N.p. [BBC], 1955
20 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Two title pages (see below).
First edition. Series Six, Number Five, first... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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SUTHERLAND, Joan
ALS To Leo McKern
Montreux: N.p., 1993
2pp. ALS on headed notepaper ('Joan Sutherland' over a floral design, light red on cream). Original envelope present, address handwritten, postmarked 23.11.93. Colour photograph of Sutherland and McKern on location for On Our Selection in Braidwood, Australia, taken the following year.
2pp. ALS FROM JOAN SUTHERLAND TO LEO MCKERN, FONDLY REMEMBERING THEIR RECENT MEETING AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING TOGETHER ON DAD AND DAVE: ON OUR SELECTION.
In 1994, four years after her retirement from the operatic stage, Dame Joan Sutherland returned to her native Australia to make what would turn out to be her only dramatic film: Dad and Dave:On Our Selection, written and directed by George Whaley. Based on the writings of Steele Rudd, the film, set in Queensland at the end of the nineteenth century, starred Geoffrey Rush, Ray Barrett, Noah Taylor -- and Leo McKern as Dad Rudd. Joan Sutherland played Mother Rudd, with not entirely satisfactory results, and the film, made to mark the centenary of the Australian film industry, was a failure with both critics and paying audiences.
This letter dates from the early days of Sutherland and McKern's association, is written on Sutherland's personalised notepaper and sent from her home in the Swiss village of Les Avants, and looks forward, albeit nervously, to the forthcoming shoot:
'[I]f nothing else convinced me to become involved in the film your honest, down-to-earthness did. I hope, if it all gets sorted out that I shan't be too much out of my depth!'
Accompanying the letter is a photograph, taken on location the following year, of a laughing Sutherland and McKern in costume.
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[HANCOCK, Tony] GALTON, Ray and SIMPSON, Alan
Hancock's Half Hour
N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC] 1959
56 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left corner.
Camera script of Football Pools, Series Five Episode Ten of ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[GIELGUD, Sir John]
War And Remembrance: Gielgud's Working Script
N.p. 1985 [The show was eventually transmitted in 1988-9].
Large 8vo, pp. 10, printed on rectos only, bound between yellow wrappers with a split pin.
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NATION, Terry; JUNKIN, John; FREEMAN, Dave
The Floggits: Trial script
London: N.p. [BBC], 1956
40 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.
First edition. TRIAL SCRIPT FOR THE SHOW WHICH BECAME FLOGGITS, STARRING ELSIE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
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[Cinema History] [ed. BAZIN, André, LO DUCA, Joseph-Marie and DO
Cahiers Du Cinema
Paris: Les Editions De L'Etoile, 1951
Five issues. Uniform yellow photo-illustrated wrappers, lettered in black. Between 50 and 60 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photographs throughout, advertisements at rear.....[please click on the image or book title for more details]
